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I am selling a Vox VBW-2500 Bill Wyman Teardrop bass. This is a beautiful shortscale bass, handmade in Japan around 2008.

It's is a pretty rare model that you won't see too often. A bit of history about this bass: Around 1960 Vox made a signature model of their Mark IV teardrop bass for Bill Wyman. Around 2007-2009 Vox Japan made a limited run of reissues of the Bill Wyman bass. The reissue came in two models, the more traditional VBW-2000 and the more expensive VBW-2500. The basses were handmade in Japan in a limited run of about 100 pieces. More info about these basses is still available on the [url="http://www.voxamps.jp/products/VBW-2500/spec.html"]Vox Japan website[/url].

Craftmanship is excellent. The neck is pretty thin and the bass is very light. The bass has alnico single coil pickups that give it a very nice and warm sound, with all the characteristics of a hollowbody bass. The sound is also quite deep for a shortscale.

Due to their limited availability these were [i]very[/i] expensive basses at the time. I'm looking for [s]850[/s] [u]750[/u][b] 700 pounds including shipping to the UK [/b](I'm located in The Netherlands). I can ship it safely in a big box, don't worry. The bass is in near mint condition, all original and comes with its original hardshell case.

Here are some specs:
- Neck: 770mm Scale length mahogany 22-frets(w/zero fret), bound rosewood and dot inlays
- Hardware: VOX CS stoptail, bridge with cover, Goto BG707-C Tuners, VOX custom single coil bass pickups
- Finish: Whale Blue
- Weight around 3.18Kg
- Hard shell case

Pics of the bass:

The Blade you have there is a B4, not a B2. The B4 can be recognized by the 3 knobs + toggle switch and the 4 pots in the cavity on the back. The B2 has a more simple pre-amp with 4 knobs on the front.

I have owned a couple of them, they are really very good basses if you have no problem with a liitle extra weight over a standard jazz bass, because of the ash body. The wood makes this bass sound great, and the necks are among the best I ever played.

Just bought a Lakland from jay-syncro last week. The deal went smooth, the bass was shipped on time and arrived safely.
Great guy to deal with.

Thanks!

Hans

Hi,

What's the weight of the bass? Heavier than usual due to the ash body or not?

I had the chance to play both the Ortega Lizard and the Kala U-bass in a shop today. Both were great sounding instruments. The Ortega has more "presence" in the sound, it sounded more organic than the U-bass, and has more midrange overtones. But I noticed a some rattling notes on the fretboard as well, so the build quality may not be that good. Sound-wise the Ortega seems a bit better, but overall I would prefer the U-bass, for it's build quality and for its looks.

All new U-basses from end 2012 / early 2013 do have exactly the same built-in tuner and volume/tone controls that the Ortega has, so that problem has been solved. They have even come out with a cheaper model, the Rumbler. I am curious to try that one out.

Do you have more pics of this bass? And also some more info on the builder?
Can't seem to find anything online about this bass...